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Dilimanjaro & ISCM - What is home ? (feat Tony Baboon)

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Why IT is so crucial in Supply Chain?

Undoubtedly, Supply chain manager have to rely on data to make decision, especially in the current ICT age. Information technology (IT) acts as eyes and ears to collect data and analyze information to help manager to visualize the whole chain and to help make better decision.

Let’s have a look of the supply chain in two ways: separated and integrated.

1. Firstly, manufacturer have to predict customer demand, observe the inventory, schedule transportation, determine facility and so on. All of the component of supply chain have to collect data and that relies on IT. For example, manager have to how many inventory left through data collected and to analyze when do I need to reorder?

2. Secondly, The key to nowadays supply chain is to have a big scope from the very beginning to the end, sometime even it is a global scope. However, a manager cannot go downstream to customer and upstream to supplier without the help of IT. IT make it accessible to have accurate and timely data for the decision under the big scope.  

Notes: Bullship effect is a very common and awful situation when there is no coordination between player all though supplier chain. To find out more, please refer to the follow interesting cartoon movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dXCaRetzdw

Now let’s jump out of the enterprise and to capture the macro processes for supply chain. It is important to have a macro insight if firms want to improve performance, because every part are heavily dependant on each other.

Thanks to IT, we are able to connect all this through with software (Such as ERP). It is actually a strong ecosystem and customer success really depend on this coordination in a supply chain.

Notes: Later on, I will write about “E-business in supply chain and How IT works in that field”.

Reference:

Chopra, Sunil, and Peter Meindl. "Supply chain management. Strategy, planning & operation." Das summa summarum des management (2007): 265-275.

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W ramach Światowych Dni Muzyki, a na zamówienie PTMW, odbył się tej niewątpliwej urody koncert autorstwa wrocławskiego kompozytora Sławomira Kupczaka. Wrocław dziękuje MKiDN i swoim pieniądzom. 

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World New Music Magazine, issue 22

[baltakas]

ISCM – Flanders

Baltakas: President of the jury 2012 of ISCM – Flanders to select the Flemish Catalogue for submissions to the ISCM festivals.